Quotes About Discovery

They hadn't found anything, for what could they have found? But order had been disturbed, peace destroyed.

One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

He looks like a guy who discovered not so long ago that he's not really so different from everybody else - thus attaining, in other words, his own enlightenment. (page 408)

That evening is the limit of the world, and I've just happened upon it, by accident, while playing, not in search of anything.

So he has found something he hadn't noticed before. He has to light a cigarette, he's so excited. He looks at that mysterious word, it will guide him now, he'll let it up with the wind like a kite and follow it. "Kairos," Kunicki reads, "Kairos," repeating it, unsure how it's pronounced. It has to be Greek, he thinks happily, Greek, and he dives into his bookshelves, but there's no Greek dictionary there, only Useful Latin Phrases, a

By my final years at primary school I had realised that literature was more than just an ordinary pleasure. I could tell that reading opened entirely different worlds before me...

During the first year of their married life, there were surprises for him, gentle shocks almost every day, but nothing shattering. For instance, he was amazed to discover how little education a girl can absorb, and go through a high school and two years of normal school besides. Why, Stella didn't know Thackeray from George Eliot!

A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Then the boy realised,the penguin wasn't lost,he was just lonely.

These last have been the men of science, the great and heaven-born men of science; and they are few. In

Archimedes, one of the greatest men of science there has ever been, and the father of physics.

About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The

The middle of the next century must be taken as the real dawn of modern science; for the year 1543 marks the publication of the life-work of Copernicus. Nicolas Copernik was his proper name. Copernicus

Copernicus lived from 1473 to 1543, and

We have seen how Copernicus placed the earth in its true position in the solar system, making

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Science is the topography of ignorance.